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I really, relly like the urban myth about polygraphs. There was this man, and he was not confessing. Thus, creative police officers got a lettuce sieve, attach
by tetha 16y ago
I really, relly like the urban myth about polygraphs.
There was this man, and he was not confessing. Thus, creative police officers got a lettuce sieve, attached it with some wires to a copier and put a paper reading "He lied" on the copier.
Given this, they put the sieve on his head and whenever he said something they had a slight doubt about, they pushed the lie detector button and the lie was "detected". Eventually the man confessed.
Its an urban legend, but it illustrates the point quite nicely in my opinion.
- quantumhobbit 16y agoThere was a scene depicting this in "The Wire". They simply put the suspects hand on the copier surface, he had never seen a copier before, and the lights freaked him out. I don't know if the show took inspiration from the urban legend or if maybe the legend can be traced back to the show. Either way, I highly recommend the Wire.